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Matinees

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"Matinees" is a wonderful collection of new poems by a very accomplished young poet. While some of the poems address subjects like fear in an airplane, or the ups and downs of relationships, all are filled with an abundance of positive energy. Ms. Mlinko's language manages to be precise and, at the same time, able to bend and reveal words'unexpected nuances and meanings. While traces of Whitman, O'Hara and the Beats are lurking here, her voice and sensibility are clearly her own.

These Matinees are well worth the price of admission, and reveal more with each reading.

This short collection of poems completely missed the mark they were shooting for with me. The poems are loaded with pedantic desriptions & back-patting about how intelligent Mlinko herself is. It looks to me like she went to the Jean Kronski School Of Poetry, stringing together adjectives & nouns trying to strike a wandering-spirit chord in her readers (I'm assuming she has "borrowed" her intent from Henry Miller's comments about how his prose takes one to special places in the mind, far away from the text of the book) which just falls flat. It comes off like a young college grad showing off all the big words she's picked up along the way. Hopefully, Mlinko will drop the posing, back-patting & aiming for a subjective esoteric response akin to her own impressions of her work from her readers.